Re: missing lilypond-tex-metrics.tex

[Graham Percival]

On 31-May-05, at 1:07 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote:

> I read the docs and I still am coming short:
> The file structure page uses the phrase:
> "music should be inside other expressions"
> I gather it means music must be inside other
> expressions.

I think we use "should be" and "must" fairly interchangeably.

> then it says:
> "A .ly file contains any number of toplevel
> expressions, where a toplevel expression is one of the
> following"
>
> well this is vague. because if some top level elements
> are left out the file won't parse while if others are
> left out it will.

Well... but only _requirement_ is that there's some music in
the file.  And even then I'm not certain that lilypond will give
a parse error.

If a file won't parse, then something else is wrong.

> the example given doesn't use a \score {} block, so I
> must assume that lilypond no longer requires a score
> block?

Correct.

> I see a layout block has this replaced the \paper{} ?

Kind-of.  See the "Paper output" section in "Output formats".

> I am in the mean time still trying to make a layout
> with no includes and lyrics.

In addition to reading the manual, you might want to look at
some examples from Mutopia or LSR.

- Graham